Chapter 19 — Preparations of cereals, flour, starch or milk; pastrycooks' products

Nepal Customs Tariff 2026/27 import duty rates and 33 HS code lines for Preparations of cereals, flour, starch or milk; pastrycooks' products (Section IV — Prepared foodstuffs; beverages, spirits and vinegar; tobacco and manufactured tobacco substitutes; products, whether or not containing nicotine, intended for inhalation without combustion; other nicotine containing products intended for the intake of nicotine into the human body). Each code shows the general and SAARC customs duty; tap a code to open the full breakdown and landed-cost estimate.

Search all HS codes Import duty calculator

19.01 — Malt extract; food preparations of flour, groats, meal, starch or malt extract, not containing cocoa or containing less than 40% by weight of cocoa calculated on a totally defatted basis, not elsewhere specified or included; food preparations of goods of Headings 04.01 to 04.04, not containing cocoa or containing less than 5% by weight of cocoa calculated on a totally defatted basis, not elsewhere specified or included

HS code	Description	Unit	General duty	SAARC duty
1901.10.00	Preparations suitable for infants or young children, put up for retail sale.	kg	5%	5%
1901.20.00	Mixes and doughs for the preparation of baker's wares of Heading 19.05	kg	10%	6%
1901.90.10	Malt extracts	kg	15%	7.25%
1901.90.90	Other	kg	15%	7.25%

19.02 — Pasta, whether or not cooked or stuffed (with meat or other Substances) or otherwise prepared, such as spaghetti, macaroni, noodles, lasagne, gnocchi, ravioli, cannelloni; couscous, whether or not prepared

HS code	Description	Unit	General duty	SAARC duty
1902.11.00	Containing eggs	kg	30%	30%
1902.19.00	Uncooked pasta,not stuffed or otherwise prepared — Other	kg	30%	30%
1902.20.00	Stuffed pasta, whether or not cooked or otherwise prepared	kg	30%	30%
1902.30.00	Other pasta	kg	30%	30%
1902.40.00	Couscous	kg	30%	11.25%

19.03 — Tapioca and Substitutes therefor prepared from starch, in the form of flakes, grains, pearls, siftings or in similar forms

HS code	Description	Unit	General duty	SAARC duty
1903.00.00	Tapioca and Substitutes therefor prepared from starch, in the form of flakes, grains, pearls, siftings or in similar forms.	kg	10%	5%

19.04 — Prepared foods obtained by the swelling or roasting of cereals or cereal products (for example, corn flakes); cereals (other than maize (corn)) in grain form or in the form of flakes or other worked grains (except flour, groats and meal), pre-cooked, or otherwise prepared, not elsewhere specified or included

HS code	Description	Unit	General duty	SAARC duty
1904.10.10	Preparations containing less than 6% by weight of cocoa calculated on totally defatted basis or not completely coated with chocolate.	kg	15%	7.25%
1904.10.91	Cornflakes	kg	15%	7.25%
1904.10.99	Prepared food obtained by the swelling or roasting of cereals or cereal products — Other	kg	15%	7.25%
1904.20.00	Prepared foods obtained from unroasted cereal flakes or from mixtures of unroasted cereal flakes and roasted cereal flakes or swelled cereals	kg	15%	7.25%
1904.30.00	Bulgur wheat	kg	15%	7.25%
1904.90.10	Puffed rice(Dhan ko bhuja)	kg	15%	7.25%
1904.90.20	Flattened rice(Chiura)	kg	15%	7.25%
1904.90.90	Other	kg	15%	7.25%

19.05 — Bread, pastry, cakes, biscuits and other bakers' wares, whether or not containing cocoa; communion wafers, empty cachets of a kind suitable for pharmaceutical use, sealing wafers, rice paper and similar products

HS code	Description	Unit	General duty	SAARC duty
1905.10.00	Crispbread	kg	30%	30%
1905.20.00	Gingerbread and the like	kg	30%	30%
1905.31.00	Sweet biscuits	kg	30%	30%
1905.32.00	Waffles and wafers	kg	30%	30%
1905.40.00	Rusks, toasted bread and similar toasted products	kg	30%	30%
1905.90.10	Pizza	kg	10%	10%
1905.90.20	Kurkure, Kurmure, Lays, Cheeseball	kg	30%	30%
1905.90.30	Papad	kg	30%	30%
1905.90.40	Empty cachets of a kind suitable for pharmaceutical use	kg	30%	30%
1905.90.50	Biscuits not elsewhere specified	kg	30%	30%
1905.90.60	Cake, Cookies and Pastry	kg	30%	30%
1905.90.70	Pauroti (Bread)	kg	30%	30%
1905.90.81	Not fried	kg	30%	30%
1905.90.89	Other crispy savoury food products — Other	kg	30%	30%
1905.90.90	Other crispy savoury food products — Other	kg	30%	30%

Chapter 19 legal notes

Notes. 1.- This Chapter does not cover : (a) Except in the case of stuffed products of heading 19.02, food preparations containing more than 20 % by weight of sausage, meat, meat offal, blood, insects, fish or crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates , or any combination thereof (Chapter 16); (b) Biscuits or other articles made from flour or from starch, specially prepared for use in animal feeding (heading 23.09); or (c) Medicaments or other products of Chapter 30. 2.- For the purposes of heading 19.01 : (a) The term “groats” means cereal groats of Chapter 11; (b) The terms “flour” and “meal” mean : (1) Cereal flour and meal of Chapter 11, and (2) Flour, meal and powder of vegetable origin of any Chapter, other than flour, meal or powder of dried vegetables (heading 07.12), of potatoes (heading 11.05) or of dried leguminous vegetables (heading 11.06). 3.- Heading 19.04 does not cover preparations containing more than 6 % by weight of cocoa calculated on a totally defatted basis or completely coated with chocolate or other food preparations containing cocoa of heading 18.06 (heading 18.06). 4.- For the purposes of heading 19.04, the expression “otherwise prepared” means prepared or processed to an extent beyond that provided for in the headings of or Notes to Chapter 10 or 11.

← All chapters of the Nepal Customs Tariff 2026/27